Did Jews practise rites involving the murder of children?

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Event· March 1475· Trent (Italy)

Trent

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Simon, a two-year-old child, disappears on Maundy Thursday 1475. His body is found on Easter Sunday in water, in the cellar of a Jewish house — and it is Jews who report the discovery to the authorities themselves. The entire community is arrested and tortured; the men are executed.

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The best-documented fifteenth-century case.
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